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Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LYOSkeslien Charles, Janet
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear--including...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Skeslien Charles 2021Hoffman, Alice
Summary: "One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HoffmanHoffman, Alice
Summary: Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFHoffman, Alice
Summary: "One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFHoffman, Alice
Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HoffmanRyan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOZusak, Markus
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ITUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuDoerr, Anthony
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOEAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEHolsinger, Bruce W.
Summary: London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers--including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford--England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. Songs are heard across London--catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England's kings--and among the book's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLDoerr, Anthony
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Doerr 2021Blaylock, Bonnie
Summary: "The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope, courage, and apple pie. Along the way, Amanda takes a shine to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAMartin, Madeline
Summary: "As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARRyan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024